The Longer Read
Welcome to The Longer Read. Published periodically, this feature explores important and timely topics in more depth than a typical Sufficiency & Wellbeing Magazine article. We hope you enjoy!
April 2026
Through the chronic illness looking glass (Part I)
This is the first of six articles exploring the connections between chronic illness, degrowth, climate change, and capitalism:
March 2026
February 2026
January 2026
The Prospects of the Zionist Project - Part 1
One hundred forty-four years have passed since the construction of the first Zionist settlement in Palestine. One hundred twenty-three years since the publication of Theodor Herzl’s second book, Altneuland, in which he envisioned the borders of the future “Jewish State” as follows: from the Palestinian-Egyptian border in the south, to Saida (Sidon) and …
The Unraveling Order
The “unified global order” never rested on unity. It rested on a set of payment rails, security guarantees, maritime chokepoints, legal regimes, and institutional norms that made Western preferences feel like neutral reality. For a while, that architecture produced a kind of planetary smoothness. Trade expanded, debt structured development, and the Glob…